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Five Simple Ways to Dramatically Improve Search
The greatest challenge for organizations implementing SharePoint is really understanding Search; what is Search and what can it do for you in your day-to-day work. There are many ways to improve your organization's Search and to configure your search engine, but the most important thing is to keep focused on a only few topics as a starting point.
New Features of ControlPoint 3 Greatly Assist in SharePoint Governance
Axceler just release its ControlPoint's new version, ControlPoint 3, with new functionality that deserves special attention. The tool delivers brand new capabilities that lets you be proactive about your SharePoint administration, including: alerting, moving sites, policy management, and scheduled analysis.
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Rich Text Fields in SharePoint Document and Picture Libraries
Did you know that if you have a multi-line text box/field in either a Document or Picture Library that your only formatting option is plain text? If you were using the same field in a List, then you get the options of configuring the output as Plain Text, Rich Text or Enhanced rich text.
How to move/migrate SharePoint list items/documents and preserve metadata properties at the same time
I think it's been pretty common knowledge that you can open up a Document Library in Windows Explorer view to move mass documents to other folders or libraries. But there's a drawback to that method because the document's properties get updated in the process - mainly the modified date/time as well as the user would take on the role of the person that 'Last modified' the document.
Top 10 Requirements for Offline SharePoint Access
Client-to-server replication delivers immediate access to SharePoint sites by caching content locally on laptops and PCs. Caching improves user productivity by delivering a consistent SharePoint experience whether information workers are on or off the network and regardless of slow (LAN or WAN) networks performance ...
Configure usage reporting
Usage reporting is a service that enables site administrators, site collection administrators, and Shared Services Provider (SSP) administrators to monitor statistics about the use of their sites. Usage reporting also includes usage reporting for search queries that can be viewed by SSP administrators for search and site collection administrators.
Debugging web parts and other SharePoint custom code
When debugging an assembly that lives in the GAC, you have to copy the symbol file (.pdb) from your project to the GAC. The problem is, when you open a Windows file explorer to the GAC directory, C:\Windows\assembly, it doesn't behave like a folder that you can drag-and-drop into...